This month's eco-challenge is to switch your home cleaning products to eco-friendly ones. Remember that the shampoo, toilet cleaners, dish washing and laundry detergents that we use may contain toxins, bleach, or chlorine that find there way into our lakes and rivers. Here are some alternatives:

BASIC INGREDIENTS FOR NON-TOXIC CLEANER RECIPES

This month's eco-challenge is pretty simple, although it will involve a little extra expense. The challenge is to choose buy products packaged in glass bottles or containers rather than plastic.

This is a follow up post from Divine Earth's earlier blog entitled "How the White House Worked to Scuttle California's Climate Law." I am offering a link to the Union of Concerned Scientists for you to actively participate in messaging the EPA Administrator - Stephen Johnson.

Fall is pretty much here, and the leaves on threes are changing color and piling up on the ground. It's a wonderful time to take a walk in nature! So here's this month's eco-challenge.

Replace your old incandescent bulbs with energy efficient fluorescent bulbs. The cost of the fluorescent bulb will gradually payoff through electricity savings and fewer replacement bulbs. The general rule is to buy a fluorescent bulb that has 1/3rd the watts of the incandescent bulb you're replacing. Use an 18 watt bulb to replace a 75 watt or higher regular (incandescent bulb).

Hi Folks!

Hello Friends of Divine Earth! In light of the recent post by Chica regarding bottled water, here's a little challenge for us all to help out our Earth Mother.